Tag: Stolen

Railway wire stolen from Khanewal-Lahore section

OKARA: Electric copper wire was stolen from Khanewal-Lahore section allegedly in connivance with the railway staff. The cases had been registered with the police stations of Okara, Sahiwal, Khanewal and Raiwind but the wire has not been recovered yet. Railway spokesman denied the involvement of the railway staff.
From the last many years, a mafia has existed within the system which has succeeded to discontinue running of trains on diesel instead of electrically and the electric

Truck with 40 metric tonnes of copper stolen

QUETTA: A truck carrying 40 metric tonnes of blister copper extracted in the Saindak Copper-Gold Project was stolen last week in the coastal district of Lasbela, Pakistan Today learned on Thursday.
According to sources, the vehicle was part of a convoy of about 32 trucks, all carrying blister copper - mixture of Copper and Gold - from Saindak to Karachi under the heavy escort of Balochistan Frontier Corps and Pakistan Customs.
They said that the truck went missing somewhere

Hepatitis vaccines worth Rs 1bn stolen from NIH?

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Health was stunned to hear on Friday that hepatitis vaccines worth Rs 1 billion have been stolen from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the case has been forwarded to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for inquiry.
Committee chairwoman Kalsoom Parveen expressed doubts whether the vaccines had even been bought in the first place, saying that perhaps the purchase was only shown on papers. She said that 17 official vehicles of